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Turkey is set to build a three-storey tunnel under Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul at an estimated cost of $3.5 billion, said a report.
The 6.5-km-tunnel would provide a road and rail connection between the city’s two sides, cu

Work on the multibillion-riyal Riyadh Metro project is progressing well and is about 10 per cent ahead of schedule, said a report, citing a top government official.
One of the world’s largest metro projects, this automatic d

Britain plans to bore a road tunnel near the prehistoric Stonehenge monument to ease congestion and remove most vehicles from view of the ancient stone circle that has puzzled visitors and scholars for centuries.
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Egypt will use machines made by a German firm to bore at least four tunnels under the Suez Canal, part of an $8 billion project to expand the waterway that the government hopes will raise revenues and foreign currency reserves.
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Qatar's Public Works Authority (Ashgal) has started work on the Al Wakrah parallel road extension project which will see the laying of a 11-km stretch from Al Mashaf to the Mesaieed area of Qatar at a cost of QR2.18 billion ($577 million).

Qatar Railways Company (Qatar Rail), the company overseeing the construction of the integrated railways network, has received four more tunnel boring machines for the first phase work of the Doha Metro.
All the four machines were manufa

Chinese engineers will submit a blueprint to the government by April for the world's longest undersea tunnel and, once approved, work could start as early as 2015 or 2016, the China Daily newspaper reported.
The tunnel, spanni

Two lanes in both directions inside the Qasr Al Bahr tunnel on Sheikh Zayed Road will be closed every Friday and Saturday for the coming two months.
The closure will occur as a result of engineering works in the tunnel, said a sta

About eighty per cent of work on the Mina Salman tunnel project in Bahrain has been completed and is due to open by September end, revealed assistant undersecretary for roads Huda Fakhro.
A total of 588 workers have been employed

The Dubai Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) said all the work related to the Dh722 million ($196 million) Rashid Hospital Tunnels Project has been completed and the tunnel will be ready for full opening on Ju